Quotes with ill-fortune

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  ― Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

  ― Tryon Edwards
  American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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• The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  ― Molière
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
  

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

  ― Thomas Gray
  British poet (1716 - 1771)
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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

  ― Eden Phillpotts
  English author, poet and dramatist (1862 - 1960)
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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  ― Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

  ― William Shenstone
  English poet (1714 - 1763)
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• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

  ― Richard Whately
  British writer (1787 - 1863)
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• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

  ― Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  ― Benjamin Rush
  American politician (1745 - 1813)
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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  ― Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

  ― Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• invidiousness
• unhistorical
• indifference
• commendation
• infrequency
• disregarded

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